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Dealing with our people is like banging ones head against a brick wall. In the meantime I would like to donate some money to hospitals to pay for peoples treatment. At least I can feel we have started somewhere. If anyone knows any hospitals or patients who need donations please post it here!

Let's do something before this year is out.

Im a light sleeper unless im seriously tired. I cannot stand anyone male or female snoring next to me

Keeping it alive!

thanks

Have not post for a few days work has been mad!




Have been doing a lot of research on borehole drying etc

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Borehole+drying%3A+a+review+of+the+situation+in+the+Voltaian, -a0210520700

Interesting paper for the nerds among you.

From the looks of things I think with some of our peoples mentality there has to be some kind of education on maintanance.

Alagba Negro!

can you email me please you are so hard to track online!

Hope you are well

I agree we need a well thought out plan because if we fail to plan then we plan to fail.

Thanks for the heads up Kobo

Ok lots of food for thought here personally I really dont see a major problem sinking boreholes in places that have never had any. Why should we ignore those areas because such projects have failed in other areas?


But from what is you guys are saying there is a need to repair previously installed ones. How do we do about finding out who installed it previously and how they installed it to avoid costly mistakes? If they dried out, is that because the pump died or the water finished?

Also there was a mention of asking the benefiting community to pay a small fee for the borehole to be repaired/newly installed. Why do you think that would make them maintain the borehole? As a charity how can we justify asking the people we are meant to be helping for money?

I await your responses!

Thanks Guys in order to do this properly even angle has to be looked at

Abrantie@But can I ask why we cant use the same gas to provide electricity for ourselves surely charity begins at home? I think our pocket change is better than doing nothing at all.

@Ujujoan The whole point of this topic was to get as much info and ideas as possible so thank you for pointing out that those of us aboard know next to nothing thats why I am asking for help.

And thank you for your information thats what is needed please keep it coming. I dont buy the idea of getting generators etc because of maintanace and people will need to buy fuel to run it the idea is to try to make life easier not put them into debt. Can you please highlight for me the problems with the handpump? Apart from the rubber wearing out but isnt there this new pump known as the Fairwater bluepump?

http://www.fairwater.org/

The reticalutions of current water holes I think is a no no unless we are just replacing handpumps since we dont know how the job was done originally I dont see how we can then go in there dig it all up and attempt to fix it or add other water systems/waste water systems we could actually be making it worse and wasting heaps of money.

You also mentioned areas with no water formations I think after doing background research it would be clear whether or not water was available in that particular area so I cant see why we would go to such an area. Or are you saying its very hard to find out if there is watger in a particular area.

Ujujoan:
@ Lady T

Nice idea, but then again, you guys abroad know so little. Siting a borehole in all the communities was one of the MDG projects. In my state, most of the communities already have boreholes. But that's a problem on it's own. They are not functioning because of maintenance.

Are you going to install hand pumps or Sumos? Hand pumps are easier to maintain but very difficult to use.

Sumos on the other hand are easy to use but are high maintenance and need elctricity to function. Will you buy generators and make sure they are being maintained?

I always think boreholes are a mistake. Most communities already have water schemes. Why not look into the reticulation of these

If you are going to set up an NGO to provide water, then you should know that boreholes are not the only way to do that! What about areas with terrible formations, where you can't get water by sinking a bore hole? Or getting water will cost you and arm, a leg and an eye

Thankyou Spikey! Every little helps @ ileke!

That's the problem with our people @ aisha

Dayo I hope you dont see yourself as husband material with these silly comments and ideas you have.

Someone mentioned some Ekiti villages and I know someone mentioned the north. But to be honest my connections are south based for now so personally I'm looking at east south or south south etc.

Any suggestions? And possible problems with location

Dayo please service gestapo shes on heat see how shes agreeing with everything you say and jumping on anyone who dares to disagree.

*rolls eyes*

Thanks Kcjazz can you email me please at mrscozy@hotmail.com anyone else can send me stuff there as well please.

Also any ideas on how do we approach these villages? I know we cant just turn up and start digging  .

I am getting info from Naija too about contractors etc and some estimates should be able to post some things this coming week.

Thanks Aisha as long as the local politicians dont try to pass it off as their Idea but it would be great as they could be our go between with the villages!

I dont actually know about writing a cheque to the hospital reason being patients are asked to always pay for their treatment I personally would like to see that money going towards people getting decent treatment and to prevent unnecessary death. I don't know maybe you guys can enlighten me further? But I do think Sweet T's hospital idea is the easiest and quickest thing we can start with.

Love the ideas Ileke-idi can you get Aisha to post here so I can talk to her. I was thinking of doing a video diary or picture diary, so people can see what we are doing and where their money is going.

WOW this is crazy I was just doing research and I have seen other Charity called THE WATER PROJECT but they dont do stuff in Nigeria but WATER AID is in nigeria is this what Aisha is involved in?

I dont think that should stop us though. We can still do something!

Some great suggestions already it won't be one location but we need to start somewhere. I was thinking setting up a paypal account for donations. But money is minor actually I'm sure it will pour in. It's how we can sent it out and make sure people will benefit and no one lines their pockets. I really like Sweet T's hospital idea. It's non profit so I don't think we need a boss only for us to manage it and supervise the work.

Let's have some faith in our people I think it's something we can do and do well.

Thanks guys

We need to think about locations anyone have any ideas?

you have the same 419 fears I do too LOL

Ileke-IdI:
aisha (politics moderator) can help with that.

@
LadyT
Great idea, am in full support, as long as the donations reach their target.

please read

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200807210521514

its gas sorry but to aid Ghanas electricity production.  Still should we be doing that?

Thanks Sweet T can you give more info on sending donations to these hospitals etc?

Hi everyone,

I have been thinking for a long time about the state of our country.  I am the first to abuse our useless leaders who steal from us and have ruined Nigeria to the state it currently is in.

So whats the point in complaining why not do something?  I thought long and hard its madness that we have to import food yet we have surplus land to farm.  We supply Ghana electricity yet we dont have light? And ofcourse many people still lack clean safe water or they need to walk miles to get to water.

So why not start a charity they say every little helps and I beleive we have the brains and the power (moneywise) to make something happen.  If our leaders wont fix our country lets do it ourselves.

I thought about starting a charity that puts borholes in rural villages nothing fancy something that is easy to maintain.  I think it costs roughly £1000 I would like input from you guys on what we can do to better our country could be anything.  I think if we all collectivly made really small donations Im talking £1 or $1 we could really make a difference.


Instead of just sitting behind computer screens lets really put the amount of wisdom I have seen on here into action.

Lol Dayo you keep trying to add things that are not relevant. At the end of the day if parents want to be lazy or work all the hours God sends and send their kids to boarding school or to live with other relations that's their headache but it takes two to make a baby so the decision should be mutual.
It's clear this guy is not being fair I suggest the uneducated as in regards to IVF should please read up on it. Or ask the mothers on here such as chairlover about her labour!

Fathers are important but you don't go thru what a woman goes thru so a little understanding is needed

gestapo:
You don't understand? Awwww shucks, sorry about your plight, but i can't help you there, so kindly move aside for those who would understand No hard feelings

Sorry I dont speak Gorilla.

Ode

A lot of what you have posted does not make sense are you even sure you know what you are trying to say?

gestapo:
I agree with Dayokanu on this issue, this was the same guy who stood by his wife for the 5 years she could not conceive, helped with the costly IVF procedure, donated his spermatozoa, rather than act like the typical Nigerian man and go and get another wife to replace her, NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN, HE IS EVIL AND HAS MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS BECAUSE OF HIS GENUINE CONCERN ABOUT HIS CHILDREN'S SAFETY AND FUTURE


And like Dayokanu said, this should have been discussed whilst courting. Mind you if this story had been = My husband wants to divorce me or I want to divorce my husband because he wants to send the children to Nigeria, these two faced hyprocrites would have been the one preaching to the girl to go on her knees, cook his favourite soup, seduce him, blah blah blah and if all this fails, agree with him, he is the head, respect him, don't question his authority, blah blah blah

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Big ups to Myjoe, Makayibbz, and ziga for setting the record straight. One would think everyone in Nigeria drops dead before the age of 21 from numerous diseases the way some ojuorolari here condemns the Country


Kids like svosi are reasons parents should raise their children in the Western world rather than ship them off to Africa at all. Asians in the Uk send their kids home from age 7 compared to Africans who wait till child is 11 upwards, as they believe that is the right age to instill discipline and looking at statistics, whose children turn out worse? Which race is always making the headlines?


And as for the daft bint comparing crime rate to that in Nigeria, is it not in UK that a child is either stabbed or subjected to a violent assault every 45 seconds in the UK by another child? Is it not in the UK that you can't send your child to the next postcode or street because he will be chased and shanked(stabbed) by his fellow children for tresspassing their territory? Is this level of mindless violence available in Nigeria? And y'all can keep your head buried in the sand if you think this only happens in Hackney, Peckham, Stratford . . , [/b]

Yes I got your message partially! Im still waiting to complete it you are not serious

Do you know what women go thru to have IVF?

I think the woman is also to blame she has never spoken up to her husband thats why he is able to treat her in this shabby manner.

Dayo please you are getting out of hand now. Must you support this man blindly? He just got out of jail for beating the hell out of his wife because she didnt want their kids sent away kids she struggled to have!

Its lazy parenting full stop IMO sending kids off for years in the name of what? the fact that in this case its against one parents wishes is even worse.

@ Dayo who are you calling?

Theres is no doubt in my mind people didnt turn out as decent people.

But personally I dont believe in suffering it should be avoided at all costs.

This is crazy she needs to get a lawyer and make plans this guy is wicked.

Its so sad why cant people compromise? This situation is out of control now.

WOW

And you have people screaming that kids need to be sent to boarding school in Naija to learn!

You obviously didn't read my post. And it's funny how you are now changing your points by saying most parents go with their kids. I'm talking about parents just dumping kids. And my recollections of nepa cuts are when I was a child and our mother took us I'm not talking about how I see naija now when I go please learn to read.

martinosi I defo dont agree.  Its up to the parent to instill culture and morals taking the child and dumping him/her Naija for years is lazy parenting IMO.  I couldnt do it I dont have kids yet but I cannot imagine not being able to see them I would worry sick.  If people wanna send kids to school in Naija fine but please not boarding school day school is fine. And send them at an age they can talk for themselves.

I think taking them/sending them on holiday is enough as long as they understand where they are from.  Speaking to them in your mother tongue cooking native dishes!!!!
Anytime we went on holiday we really enjoyed ourselves we hated it when they took the light television was horrible and no one knew how to use the car horn beep beep all the damn time.  But you know now we are all adults we go back home whenever we get the chance. Because its home even with all the madness.

Although our country is an utter mess making sure they are proud of who they are and letting them know they are at an advantage being aboard they could go back tomorrow and help rebuild Nigeria!

I knew it!  I already stated the husband probably has her passport.  This woman married the WRONG guy.  All children are precious and beautiful but going thru that IVF hell is something else she shouldnt risk it.  

He cannot force her on the plane and he must not be allowed to take the kids. Any silly mistake from him dial 911.

I suggest she never visits Nigeria with her husband for the next 10 years If I was her I would seek advice from a lawyer.

Can I finally say this woman better make it her aim in life to bring up these kids very well


Dayo your own ashewo is tooooooo much